Technology

Cell booster maker shifts focus away from retail

ClearRF sets its sights on machine-to-machine uses

May 22, 2014

ClearRF LLC, the 4-year-old Spokane Valley-based maker of wireless signal amplifiers, is leaving the consumer market and plans to focus fully on what's called the machine-to-machine, or m2m, sector. The move is intended to enable the company to purs

Entering new dimension

Emerging 3-D printers useful in wide array of applications

May 22, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Once perceived as grist for sci-fi aficionados in a distant future, 3-D printing is turning up in unexpected places, in vastly different industries, and with surprising applications from the manufacture of prototypes, to the creation of synthetic body par

Sacred Heart Medical Center nets big savings with lighting upgrade

Nearly 10,000 bulbs have been replaced in project

May 8, 2014

Lucas Thayer

Sacred Heart Medical Center has completed a major phase of a lighting upgrade project at its campus just south of downtown Spokane, replacing nearly 10,000 32-watt fluorescent bulbs with 25-watt bulbs and more energy-efficient fixtures, as well as install

Inland Imaging adds low radiation CT machines

Scanners said to offer safer test, maintain image quality

May 8, 2014

Katie Ross

Inland Imaging LLC, the Spokane-based provider of medical imaging services, has purchased and installed three new low-radiation computed tomography (CT) machines, says Angela Steinbach, manager of CT services for the company. It installed the first ma

Ecova remodels its corporate headquarters at Rock Pointe

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May 8, 2014

Mike McLean

Spokane-based energy-management company Ecova Inc. has launched a $900,000 remodel and expansion project at its corporate offices in the Rock Pointe Corporate Center, north of downtown. The project involves improvements to 95,000 square feet of floor spa

Green Focus Global Inc. draws water from air in Philippines

Company expects sales volume to rise rapidly

May 8, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Spokane-based Green Focus Global Inc., a company that makes atmospheric water generation technology, has spent the last 18 months beta-testing its air-to-water generator in Manila, Philippines, and working out the kinks of entering an international market

Key Tronic posts dip in earnings

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April 29, 2014

Staff Report

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based provider of electronic manufacturing services, announced today net income of $1.4 million, or 13 cents a diluted share, for its 2014 fiscal year third quarter that ended March 29, down from income of $2.9 million

Imprezzio affiliate debuts sales software

Parent company also announces new CEO

April 24, 2014

Katie Ross

Racing Snail Inc., a Phoenix-based sister company of Spokane software provider Imprezzio Inc., has launched a new software designed to track sales activities and increase efficiency. Racing Snail and Imprezzio are both subsidiaries of Spokane-based hol

Ecova inks contract with large golf course operator

Affiliation, new program focused on sustainability

April 10, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane-based energy management company Ecova Inc. has landed a contract to provide utility-expense and energy-supply management services to Los Angeles-based American Golf Corp., which manages 91 private and public golf courses nationwide. Specifically,

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories to improve power grid at Stanford University

Work to enable centralized control of campus system

April 10, 2014

Mike McLean

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc., the Pullman-based producer of energy protection equipment and systems, is working on a power-grid upgrade for Stanford University campus in the heart of Silicon Valley, says Eddie Schweitzer, SEL business developm